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If you’re wondering, I believe the Utapri stage play is a situation of only the RE being tracked (the rankings explicitly state RE) by Oricon, the LE presumably being Animate exclusive and not in Oricon’s database.

Fall update:Deremas Gekijou s2 v1 sells 7129/763, total 7,892. 0.8%/11.8% overestimated. Event ticket. Though, not a major event ticket like the one that gave s1v1 a 44k total. This is one of the best examples yet that “event ticket” doesn’t always mean the same thing, and we need to not just know when there is an event ticket, but to know what kind it is to know if it’ll impact sales much. Not only isn’t this the big yearly live, but access to the ticket is split across four releases: 2 BDs from this season and two CDs, one of which came out a month ago. So more minor event + lots of ways to get it = 44k to 8k for what’s just a continuation of the same show basically. All that said, still very good for a short, if a somewhat hilarious drop taken out of context.

Symphogear s4 v3 sells 8944/919, total 9,863. It’s still tracking so close to (and slightly ahead of) GX it’s uncanny, even after the event ticket vols. s4v3wk1 is 9,863 vs s2v3wk1’s 9,751. It should manage another season on season increase, albeit a tiny one. Though s3 had the extended rankings while s4 doesn’t, so the bump should actually be very slightly more than whatever it ends up being.

Not tracked by Oricon, so no data:
Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita. – Probably falls under porn like that recent monk show, thus not tracked.

Past seasons:Granblue v7, final volume, sells 23552/17584, total 41,136.
v1 adds 591 DVDs, total 55,829.
v2 adds 411/595, total 44,746.
v3 adds 437/703, total 42,090.
v4 adds 552/838, total 40,160.
v5 adds 690/879, total 39,009.
v6 adds 1044/12515, total 42,971.
Series average: 43,706. Filled in a ton of missing weeks for the BDs, though we would have eventually, gotten them in the year-end lists anyway. Only v1 BD didn’t rank this week so there’s probably another 2k waiting there. A 45k average isn’t out of the question.

I guess it’s that 1) It never found its’ audience and 2) even within whatever audience it had, people were let down by the iffy animation, unengaging dance sequences, and weak (especially female) characters. It could have been so much more – I imagine these sales are probably a major disappointment to Production IG.

Production IG is not the top producer or leading the committee for Ballroom, it’s Pony Canyon (basically the order from top to bottom: PC-Kodansha-IG-Animatic-Dentsu-etc), so depending how the contract goes which we are not privy of, we don’t know for sure how much money/stake that IG had on Ballroom…but Pony Canyon is definitely the one that taking the most risk on the project. Maybe it’s major disappointment, maybe only mediocre or little, who knows really…..

On the other hand, Production IG along with the whole IG port are definitely their own leading committee on MahoYome, so I’m pretty sure they quite satisfied with its performances so far, their holding the streaming licenses themselves, the manga licensed and sales through Mag Garden which had great sales thus far, and now the BD sales also quite decent/solid for them.

I don’t know who is on the Just Because production committee, but Pine Jam isn’t even on Tenshi no 3P’s committee, so its success or failure does not directly affect them. They were paid a fee to animate it, and that’s that. They’re not carrying any risk for its failure, nor would they share in its success. It’s probably the same for Just Because, where they’re either not on the committee or are pretty low down.